Finally China's coming up with a plan to reform the pension system:
the retirement age is to be raised gradually. This article will be
about the key measures of the reform, the reasons the government
intends to initiate this plan and why the public oppose it.

By He Qinglian on September 29, 2015
Source article in Chinese: “李嘉诚话题”突显权力与资本关系日趋紧张
This abridged translation first appeared in the Epoch Time on October 11, 2015

After Hong Kong billionaire Li
Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man, recently moved his investments out of
China, state media accused him of being unethical and ungrateful,
fleeing China when the economy was slowing despite having profited
handsomely in better times. He Qinglian, a noted economist, explores the
tensions between power and capital in today’s China.

By He Qinglian on September 19, 2015
Source article in Chinese: 《国企改革方案》的风，姓私还是姓公？
This translation first appeared in ChinaChange on September 30, 2015

A flood of commentary has come out since the release of the long-anticipated Guiding Opinions on Strengthening and Reform of State-Owned Enterprises (《中共中央、国务院关于深化国有企业改革的指导意见》;
“SOE Reform Program” or “Program” hereafter), jointly issued by the
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council.
Some say that the Program is aimed at expanding and strengthening SOEs,
while others say that the government is using market forces to promote
privatization. That the same plan can yield two radically different
suppositions is due to the Program’s strong “Xi Jinping quality”: It
tries to combine the governance characteristics of both Mao Zedong and
Deng Xiaoping and gain some advantage from both sides, thereby
introducing a whole bunch of mutually contradictory formulations.